10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BATHETIC»
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bathetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bathetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
PI. pron. bahdhz ; see -TH & -DH. bathetic, bathetic. These are made in imitation
of pathetic, chaotic ; but pathetic is not analogous, & chaotic is itself irregular. An
adjective for bathos is, however, almost a necessity to the literary critic, & the ...
H. W. Fowler, David Crystal, 2009
2
The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from ...
With this shift of imagery, the relation between the sublime and the bathetic
becomes a matter not of simple difference but of internal differentiation of a single
substance or category, a transformation paralleled by the differentiation that the
term ...
3
Garner's Modern American Usage
In BrE, bathe suggests either swimming (especially in the sea) <bathing in the
North Sea> or dousing with a liquid <bathing the wound in alcohol>. bathetic, not
*bathotic, is the adjective corresponding to bathos. (See bathos.) The analogy is
to ...
The underside of Wilde and Coward, and the immersion in ordinariness is what
characterizes the bathetic hero. Bathos, the reduction of the elevated to the
everyday to produce an incongruous anticlimax, is a rhetorical term whose
current ...
5
Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A ...
Use bathetic. t )FSF T NZ IZQPUIFTJT OP one expected (certainly not the likes
ofa Galileo, or Marx, or Darwin, or Freud) that the Human Project would end, or
end on such a bathotic note. Use bathetic. t 'SPN JUT IZQFSCPMJD TUZMF BOE
...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
6
Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama
"Bathetic" and "pathetic" are phonetic siblings and semantic twins. The first, a
pejorative term, euphonically qualifies the second, the designation of a type of
response. The sense of low artistic worth conveyed by "bathetic" all too easily ...
7
Jungian Literary Criticism
as Holmes would characterize it: crude, destructive, bathetic. Thus it is
appropriate, too, that Holmes neither embraces, accepts, or even rejects the
sentimental tale's moral feeling. Repressed, it simply does not exist for him, even
at the textual ...
8
Fictions of Intelligence: Eighteenth-century English Novels ...
Pope compares such writers to the “magicians on our stage,” and indeed the
analogy is an apt one (19). By making the metaphorical “gold” of truth disappear,
the bathetic writer makes real gold appear in its place. He has discovered the
truth ...
9
The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered
His Treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry, i 728)" Writing ironically upon the
Profound, Pope hit, not too comfortably, on the real resemblance between the
Sublime and the Bathetic. The Alritudo may catch us all, going in either direction.
Margaret Anne Doody, 1985
10
Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric ...
Armed with this "virginal" insight into the workings of poetic language, Crane
seems insulated against the low comedy of bathetic fallings off, and the more
plaintive expressions of an elegiac grief: And you may fall downstairs with me
With ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BATHETIC»
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Computers will soon beat us at being human
... approximate number of words, but the impending dark night of humanity's soul will be made up of hundreds of these bathetic little moments. «The Times, Jul 15»
'Unacceptable' is the new 'something must be done'. David Cameron …
“Unacceptable” is a bathetic end to this long struggle, though certainly a safer way for a prime minister to describe his concern than “something ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
'The Dust that Falls from Dreams', by Louis de Bernières
There is no time to be bored, but it is a dangerous, sometimes bathetic technique, enjoyably witty, but distancing. Just as you begin properly to ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
The winter of our discontent: the global canvas, the suburban blight
... and the micro-failures are indistinguishable from the micro-aggressions in the moment of experience, and the bathetic and inane become the ... «eNCA, Jul 15»
Vintage Toronto Ads: The 1999 Toronto Fringe Festival
... (“a bathetic, broken record”); and The Dead Monkey (“an overextended, unfunny sketch that veers sharply into unbelievable melodrama”). «Torontoist, Jul 15»
'Shirley, I Jest': Cindy Williams on Life, Laughs, & 'Laverne & Shirley'
... it's candid and revealing without being mean-spirited, blithe and bubbly without being fluff, occasionally heart-rending without being bathetic. «Biography, Jun 15»
Life and death choices
The relief at its return lasts only so long as when it sinks in that the twist is at best, bathetic, and, at worst, histrionic. Lai's feature debut shows ... «The Straits Times, Jun 15»
A Victorian sailor is the new love of my life
Occasionally the author strikes a bathetic note: 'Alexandria makes Exeter seem awfully dull by comparison.' At the outset she refers to 'meeting' ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
Chance the Rapper Threw an Awesome Fest for Teens Yesterday
Nobody was wasted, which was nice, though it didn't help the event's time slot (4 p.m. on a Wednesday) feel any less bathetic. An abridged opening set by ... «Chicagomag.com, Jun 15»
Can you communicate using just emoji? Ask Chevy ;-)
There have also been some spectacularly bathetic findings to come out of all this millennial mining. Take, for example, a US Potato Board ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
